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M. FADER. FOOD CUTTER.

No. 443,754. Patented Dec. 30, 1890.

A 4 z- WITNESSES: [1V VLN T OR NITED STATES MARTIX FADER, OF

BAYSIDE, CANADA.

FOOD-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 443,754, dated December 30, 1890.

Application filed July 22, 1890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN FADER, of Bayside, in the county of Halifax and Province of Nova Scotia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Food- Cutters; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

My invention relates to mechanism for the cutting of food, principally bread and meat. It may also be employed in the cutting of bait for the use of fishermen on the coast.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a central lon gitudinal section through Fig. 3, looking in the direction of arrow 1. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view taken through the line X X on Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation taken through theline Y Y on Fig. 1. Fig. a is a sectional detail taken through the line Z Z on Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a detail view of the gage. Fig. 6 is a sectional detail view of the gage and part of the side boards of the machine.

a a, &e., are thelegs of the machine. I) is a table resting upon said legs. 0 c are side boards placed upon two of the edges of said table. (Z d d d are uprights let into the outside surface of said side boards, so as to constitute vertical ways or guides for the frame of a cross-knife 6. This cross-knife is inserted by means of rivets into a frame composed of two pieces ff, which frame moves up and down between said guides dd (Z (Z. The frame is connected by vertical rods g g to the top bar h. The lower ends of the rods g g are connected by pitmen h 7&2 to a treadle i. This treadle has a spring j, so that after the foot of the operator brings down the treadle and thereby the knife between the side boards 0 c, in order to cut anysubstance placed under Serial No. 359,550. (No model.)

neath the knife, upon releasing the foot the knife will rise up between the ways (Z (Z d d. The upper ends of the pitmen h h are connected to the lower ends of the rodsg g by means of set-screws 7c is.

Z is a gage-board, which has flanges Z Z. These flanges move in grooves m m, &c., made upon the inner surfaces of the side boards cc. The flanges Z Z are placed upon the ends of the gage-board Znearer one surface than the other, so that by reversing the gage-board in other words, presenting the opposite surface of the gage-board to the eutting-knifea different thickness of cut will be obtained on the substance operated upon.

a is a feeder-board with a handle 0 placed betweenthe side boards 0 0, being connected by sides nn. Such feeder-board aids merely in pushing up the loaf of bread, piece of meat, bait for fish, or other article of food to the cutter, to be operated upon.

p is aslot in the table I), through which the slices or pieces cut may pass into a drawer q. The drawer 1 moves in ways 0' 0' underneath the table and is pulled out and pushed inby means of the handle 5. I prefer to make the bottom of the drawer sloping, as shown at t.

I. claim- In a food-cutter, the combination of a knife moving in ways with a gage-board formed with flanges and having a varying thickness of the board upon opposite sides of these flanges, the side boards of the cutter contain ing vertical grooves upon their inner sides for the reception of the flanges of the gageboard, substantially as described.

MARTIN FADER.

\Vitnesses:

ROBERT THEAKSTON, H. L. HART. 

